{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Success Beyond The Brush","title":"SBTB Ep. 26 | Stop Guessing Your Profit: How to Job Cost Every Project Accurately","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":890,"description":"Download the C4C Job Profitability Spreadsheet Here\nMost contractors know how much revenue a project generated. Far fewer can say exactly how many dollars—and what percentage—they actually made on that project.\nWithout accurate job costing, business owners are forced to make decisions based on feelings, incomplete reports, or money in the bank. A company may look busy and profitable while missed labor, employee burden, equipment rentals, dumpsters, lodging, subcontractor changes, and other direct costs quietly eat away at its margins.\nIn this episode of Success Beyond the Brush, Scott Lollar explains how to calculate a project’s true gross profit by subtracting its cost of goods sold from its revenue. He breaks down what should be included in job costs, how employee labor burden differs from subcontractor labor, and why seemingly small missing expenses can produce dangerously inaccurate results.\nScott also discusses gross-profit benchmarks for residential repaint contractors, why commercial contractors operate under a different model, and how job-cost data can reveal more than whether an individual project won or lost money.\nWhen projects are categorized by service, salesperson, project manager, crew leader, subcontractor, and lead source, contractors can identify which parts of the business are actually producing profit—and which ones only feel successful.\nKey Topics CoveredWhat job costing means and why it mattersComparing estimated costs with actual project resultsCalculating gross profit in dollars and percentagesWhat belongs in cost of goods soldW-2 wages, payroll taxes, workers’ compensation, PTO, benefits, and employee burdenTracking subcontractor labor accuratelyCapturing materials, dumpsters, lifts, travel, lodging, and other direct costsThe difference between direct costs and variable expensesResidential repaint gross-profit benchmarksWhy commercial gross-profit targets may be lowerMeasuring profitability by service typeComparing results by salesperson,...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/pdEIPdN9aIYAPyzyMbtjCAiKcSsD7VyQq1yYVVylzns/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85YzFh/YTc4MTAyNWY2NzFl/NWUzZjc2MGNjYjc4/ZjEzMi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}